Before putting this on the calendar, wanted to gauge the level of interest in a pre-Christmas bash in Winchester.

Why Winchester?
• Halfway between London (one hour from Waterloo) & the west, making it easy to get to for all those darn sarf. Northerners could fly inexpensively in to Southampton (20 minutes away).
• Nice place, interesting history for those who like that sort of thing, very good selection of pubs, such as this one: tinyurl.com/8bzbgt8
• Both me and Monty have lived there before (not together) and reckon it could be a good place for a bash.
• Accomodation if booked now should be cheap.

Possible dates: Saturday 8th or Saturday 15th December. Vote here & enough people are up for it I will add to the calendar

Bash??






Which date?

Which date?





Or maybe Oxford?



( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:32, 99 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

This is the most ridiculous idea ever.
Why would anyone from London want to travel to some dismal shithole in the moddl of nowhere to mix with a bunch of social retards?
(Bazongaloid, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:36, Reply)

Well enough people traveled from London to Bristol to do exactly that.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:37, Reply)

I refer the right honorable gentlemen to the people who actually made that journey.
'nuff said.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:37, Reply)

So that's a no from you then I take it?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:39, Reply)

You mean almost everyone aside from you and Chompy?

( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:39, Reply)

And Bartleby, the fucking diabetic cunt.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:47, Reply)

Now steady on
it's not his fault he suddenly caught diabetes the morning of the bash.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:00, Reply)

I think it's arguable that he had some part to play.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:01, Reply)

It was a week before, you cunts

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:27, Reply)

I think you should get Kroney banned for this bullying.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:28, Reply)

I'll get B3th to step him.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:31, Reply)

I've already been yellow carded by her
she won't be as forgiving this time :(
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:32, Reply)

I missed the 13:37 Loltrain

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:51, Reply)

I think I was busy washing my hair.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:52, Reply)

I've been to winchester,
there was a nice long street with lots of shops and restaurants and things.
also, good disabled parking.
also, i think i saw a transvestite.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:38, Reply)

Hush biggun
*strokes*
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:42, Reply)

i did mean the spinnaker one,
how did you break it? And surely they could just employ Manolith to throw the disableds up the tower?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:44, Reply)

Well that's how we've managed so far
Yeah, it worked for about 20 mintues on the first day of opening apparently. Then it jammed and has never worked since. Shame really. It would be something else to do in the fucking spinnaker.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:45, Reply)

i lived there for about 2 years,
and never once had the urge to visit it. The all you can eat chinese buffet next to it however, was excellent.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Yeah, it's pretty good
And we discovered that the lunch time menu, while it doesn't have quite as many dishes as the evening, it's literally half the price. All four of us ate there recently for £20.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:52, Reply)

i'm glad it's still there,
i loved that place.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:11, Reply)

Logistically speaking Milton keynes is the best place for a bash.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Geographically maybe, but it's a fucking shithole.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:41, Reply)

bollocks.
it's robs candleday, i've gazzed him to say happy candle day, i think you should too.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:42, Reply)

Creep

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:42, Reply)

Paranoid Android

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:44, Reply)

it's alright,
i wrote it all in caps.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:45, Reply)

He's got me on 2.0

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:48, Reply)

Geographically, Coventry is.
Nobody's going to want to go there, either.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:42, Reply)

come to oxford,
i have a pub and everything.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:45, Reply)

Next time we get rid of the kids for the weekend
TOTES coming to Oxford.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:45, Reply)

I like Oxford a lot.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Apart from all the students.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:46, Reply)

there is them,
but after the summer of tourists, i welcome them with open arms.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:48, Reply)

well, i;ve tried inviting twohats to visit,
but he has a stupid family and commitments and friends. You should come visit, we could drink in my pub, then drink in some other pubs, then drink in a dingy nightclub in an old university cellar, then snuggle.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:47, Reply)

I hate all of those things Windy
Except Oxford of course
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:48, Reply)

you hate snuggles???

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:48, Reply)

Yeah, he's a prick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkjH5WUnEM
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:53, Reply)

My brother's hilarious mate Bonz lives near Oxford,
he's one of the most amusing people I've ever met.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:49, Reply)

bonz is a stupid fucking name.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:50, Reply)

He has even more stupidly named friends than that.
Off the top of my head, there's Toothless Tim, Phil Syph (because they reckoned he has syphillis), Hawkeye, Nick Bollocks, fucking loads of these fools...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:52, Reply)

Collectivley they're known as the Samurai Justice League

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:53, Reply)

Actually two of those names are indeed involvd in that story.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Carry on, but don't lose your head.

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Black fingernail lolz

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:56, Reply)

It's my fault if you can't use a hammer properly?

(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:57, Reply)

Nicky Bollocks flows better
Tell him to start calling himself Nicky Bollocks.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:53, Reply)

OK will do.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Me too

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:47, Reply)

you should also come and visit.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:49, Reply)

So it's agreed then?
We sack off Battered's Winchester bash and all meet at Pigso's pub in Oxford instead?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:50, Reply)

you would all be very welcome.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:50, Reply)

Not as much as you like free booze.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:49, Reply)

Innit

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:52, Reply)

I've been drinking in Oxford a few times.
Not yours, though. I hear weird things about the patrons in your pub. I don't want to be quizzed about whether I'm off the internet or whatever.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:51, Reply)

how do you know you haven't drunk in my pub?
do you know where i work? are you some sort of creepy stalker?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:54, Reply)

Maybe I have, I don't fucking know
I have trouble just telling you and Two Hats apart ffs.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Haha
Man, you should see what we look like
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:56, Reply)

Should I, though?
Should I *really*?
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:04, Reply)

I'm very handsome, as it goes
Windy looks like Eric Roth, if he was from the middle ages.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

we look almost idenitical

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:07, Reply)

YOU LOOK LIKE A MAN FROM THE PAST

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

maybe i am you in a past life,
time travelled to now, by you from the future.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:12, Reply)

You just blew my mind

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:13, Reply)

Now I'm confused,
are you the one with the pub or what?
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:15, Reply)

Nah, I'm the handsome bald one with the distinguished beard

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:17, Reply)

OK, so you look like a paedophile
and the other one looks like a medieval Jew.

Got you.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:19, Reply)

!
I'M VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS. ONLINE!
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:20, Reply)

Right, so you're the Jew, right?

( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:21, Reply)

Well I'm circumcised, if that's what you mean

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:24, Reply)

ME TOO!!!

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:35, Reply)

And there was me thinking you were a cavalier

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:36, Reply)

So you're telling me I can't even tell you apart
by looking at your cocks?

I'm all at sea, here.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:39, Reply)

all at sea, here really turned on now
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:40, Reply)

No, it's ok
Mine has a tattoo on it. It says "Father" in Sanscrit.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:41, Reply)

More likely 'dad' in 4 point Arial.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:42, Reply)

or 'LOL' in Comic Sans more like!!

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:49, Reply)

I could probably make it.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Approximate centre of the country = Coventry
I think the bash should be here in my home town.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:04, Reply)

no.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:07, Reply)

No.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Coventry Meriden

Although, I'm not sure that is true either. EDIT - It's not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden,_West_Midlands#Traditional_centre_of_England
Also, this is only for England, not the whole of Britain.
If you're not careful you'll get non-British people, like Plumdozer, complaining.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Should be Lancashire on that basis
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Kingdom
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:12, Reply)

I would be more likely to attend a fucking Brisbane bash that that.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:13, Reply)

You'll never get into twang club with that attitude.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:19, Reply)

First rule of Twang Club....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:20, Reply)

I'M FROM WINCHESTER.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:45, Reply)

i don't think so.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:45, Reply)

Actually it is a slight lie.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:46, Reply)

so where are you really from?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:48, Reply)

All over the place.
I'd lived in Nottingham, Lincoln, Windsor, Cheltenham and Winchester by the age of 7.

/gyppo lolz
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:50, Reply)

i once got arrested in Cheltenham,
great town.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:51, Reply)

It's pretty good.
I think we left there because my old man was about to have an affair.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Due to an unamended town charter
It's illegal to be ginger in Cheltenham. It's in the Domesday Book if you don't believe me.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:57, Reply)

i got arrested for taking a poo on a car windscreen and then going for a little swim in the fountain.
apparently that counts as "drunk and disorderly"
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Woah
That's a curious expression, Drunk and Disorderly.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:11, Reply)

They use it because "pissed and acting the cunt"
isn't PC enough.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:16, Reply)

www.hotukdeals.com/deals/youll-never-walk-alone-mp3-proceeds-going-hillsborough-charities-0-69-amazon-1313586
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:32, Reply)

+ Dale Farm.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:51, Reply)

I KNOW

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Fuck off I hate you.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:47, Reply)

I have edited to add an Oxford option.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

And now the reply count is RUINED
I hope you're happy.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:02, Reply)

Stop moaning.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:04, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1729551
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:03, Reply)

i don't want to piss on your christmas bash,
but an oxford bash would be nice at some point.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:16, Reply)

Seems daft not to make use of an actual OT owned pub.

( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:22, Reply)

Winchester and Oxford are both far too upmarket for us lot

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:17, Reply)

Speak for yourself. Povvo.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:19, Reply)

If by "us lot", you mean "the North"
it's ok, you weren't invited.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:21, Reply)

I'm forgetting that Slough is twinned with Rome

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:24, Reply)

Haha, nice

( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:26, Reply)

A whinge about grammar
Here is an email I just received:

"Please find the e mail address below of which I am not receiving e mails from.
Please advise as to is there is a problem."

This is a grown woman and a native English speaker. I am appalled.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:30, Reply)

A native English speaker like an apache.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:32, Reply)

'Yes, there certainly is a problem. You are fucking illiterate, you wizened hag'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:32, Reply)

This ^^^^
Too many people think if it passes the spellcheck then it must be fine.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:37, Reply)

Spellcheck is also completely useless if you misspell a word by accidentally typing another real word.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:38, Reply)

Write on.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:38, Reply)

toaled yew sew

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:39, Reply)

Tell her that "yourselves" have installed a language filter
Any misuse of the English language is automatically blocked.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:36, Reply)

just punch the monitor.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:36, Reply)

Just do your job IT monkey.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:37, Reply)

Kick her in the cunt.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:37, Reply)

Go eat a dick you French wanker.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:38, Reply)

You're all shit and I hate you for being so fucking far away.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:40, Reply)

Maybe we're just holding something of a differing size.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:40, Reply)

A banjolele, for example.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:41, Reply)

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:41, Reply)

A British website dominated by British people
having meet-ups in Britain. What a fucking shocker.

Stop living in the third world if you have a problem with it.
( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:44, Reply)

Yeah fuck off to 'Yabbie Creek' ya mongrel!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:44, Reply)

Worra galah

( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:45, Reply)

What do you expect from a Kangaroo-fucker?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:48, Reply)

I still think you should all fly out here and have a bash here. It'd be a bit cosy but I'll make you ALL fit into my house.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:46, Reply)

*looks for the "fuck off, I hate you" option*

( Kroney, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:48, Reply)

you're so fucking mean you french halibut.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:49, Reply)

I have a controversial opinion about the relative 'goodness' of this thread.
Instead of shocking you by sharing it, I shall leave you to make your own assessment and either post your review as a reply to this or, preferably, start a new one that isn't so shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:45, Reply)

My wee smells like sugar puffs Monty
What does that mean?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:50, Reply)

you've caught diabeetus off barts.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:51, Reply)

Oh no, the diabeetus?
Doctor sez if I eat one more eeclair they's gunna take my foot :(
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:53, Reply)

Have you been drinking a lot?
When I've been lashing it too much, my wee smells of Walkers 'Roast Chicken' Crisps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:51, Reply)

No, but I have been eating a lot of sugar puffs

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:53, Reply)

And sometimes my farts smell of popcorn

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:53, Reply)

I let one go in Tesco's on Saturday morning
that was so foul I genuinely left in shame without buying anything, and had to wait an hour before going back and making my purchases. People were looking at each other in disgust. It smelled like a medieval horse fair.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:55, Reply)

Oh Monty
You should instantly (and publically) blame the next nearest person to you. Then when everyone looks their way, simply blend into the crowd.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:58, Reply)

So you'd rather have a thread about lunch, kids TV programmes, a newslink or you moaning about your ex?
If so, fuck off and start one.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:51, Reply)

I was hoping I wouldn't have to do ALL THE FUCKING WORK MYSELF for once.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:52, Reply)

arbeit macht frei

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:53, Reply)

tl;dr

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 17 Sep 2012, 11:55, Reply)